Tag-locking device



A. BQDIN. TAG LOCKING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 14. 1919.

1,401,235. Patented Dec. 27, 1921.

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.dral'an 23061022 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANTON BODIN, 0F CHESTER'ION, INDIANA.

TAG-LOCKING DEVICE.

To aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, ANTON Benin, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chesterton, county of Porter, and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tag-Locking Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in tag locking devices and has for its object the provision of a device'whereby shipping tags may be quickly and securely fastened to containers which are accustomed to be re-used.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists in the combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter de scribed and claimed.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which,

Figure l, is a side elevation of a container with the invention applied.

Fig. 2, is a front elevation of the invention with a tag applied, a part of which is removed, and

Fig. 3, is a side elevation of the invention secured to an object with which used.

In the transporting and handling of containers which are re-used, such as bottlecases, milk cans, etc., it has been customary heretofore to fasten the shipping tag on these objects by means of a string which is secured to the shipping tag. This string is used to tie the shipping tag to some suitable part of the object being shipped. "With some objects, this has proven a very inconvenient method because of the lack of any suitable part to which a shipping tag may be tied with a string. With other objects it involves the consumption of a considerable amount of time in placing tags on the object to be shipped. Furthermore, a considerable amount of time is required to remove the shipping tag from the object to which the same has been attached for the reason that the string, which is usually of very strong material, is generally tied with a knot. In removing the shipping tag, it quite frequently happens that the tag is torn away from the string, thereby leaving a string still fastened to the object which is to be used again as a container. With this method of removing the tag, a container, in a short time has a sufficient number of these strings fastened to it to give it a very unsatisfactory appearance.

Specification of Letters Eatent. Patented Deg, 27, 1921 Application filed April 14, 1919. Serial No. 289,886.

To avoidthese difficulties and to cause a sav ng of time, I have invented a device whlch will permit of the easy application to and quick and easy removal of a shipping tag from a container which is to be re-used. In carrying out thisinvention, I provide a base 4, which is preferably made of some soft metal, such as malleable iron. This base 4 has one end thereof enlarged as at 5. Pro ecting from the outer surface of the member 5 are integrally formed lips 63. At the opposite end of the base member 4: and projecting therefrom is a hook member 7 having one end of the hook open and adapted to receive the member 8 which is secured to the member 5 by means of the lips 6, which are bent over or clenched upon one end of the member 8, as shown in Fig. 2. The member 8, which is made of some suitable spring wire material, is coiled, as at 9, thereby giving the member 8 a sufficient amount of resiliency to hold the end engaged by the member 7 in close contact therewith. As shown in Fig. 3, the central portion of the member 8 is bowed outwardly from the base 4, it being readily apparent that by outwardly bowing the member 8 the tension at the end 8, when pressed downwardly to engage the hook 7, is thereby increased. The end 8 of the member 8 is outwardly flexed in the plane of the bowed portion of the member 8, for the purpose of preventing the end 8' from becoming disengaged with the hook 7 when the bowed portion of the member 8 should come into contact with other objects, as frequently happens with objects of this class which are being shipped or transported in cars or wagons. The base member is secured to the object with which this device is to be used by suitable fastening means 10, the same being preferably rivets. This device may, however, be secured to the object with which it is to be used by solder, or any other suitable means.

In Fig. l the invention is shown applied to a milk can 11 bearing a shipping tag 12. In using a device of this class the end 8 of the member 8 is press-ed downwardly and then disengaged from. the hook member 7, whereupon the end 8' will be allowed to spring laterally outwardly. The shipping 7 member 8 at right angles as described, the g parent from the ease with which a shipping tag may be placed on a container or removed therefrom. As shown in Fig. 2, the end of the member 8, which is opposite the end 8, in bent at right angles and engagedb y one of the lips 6. By turning this end of the member 8 is thereby prevented from rotating upon'that portion which is engaged by the other lips 6;

While I have illustrated and described the preferredform of construction for'carrying my invention into elfect, this is capable of variation and modification without departlng from the spirit of the invention.

therefore do not ish to be limited to the precise details of construction set forth, but

desire to avail myselfof such variati ns and article; a shoulder at one end of said support; brackets on the outer face of said modifications as come Within the scope or": the appended claims.

Having described my invention, What I claim asnevv and desire to secure by LettersPatent. is

' 1 In a tag securing attachment comprising a support adapted to be secured to. an

shoulder a hook on said support; a resilient member having its one end bent at an angle and engaging said brackets and the other end thereof engaging said hook; a coil in said resilient member intermediate its ends; and means for securing said support to an article, substantially as described.

2. In a tag securing attachment comprissupport and a resilient member mountsaid support for retaining said tongue in position, substantially as de scribed.

operative In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specificationin the presence of tWo subscribing Witnesses.

ANTON BOD-IN.

W'itnesses: 7

WILLIAM PLAGEMAN,

I CHARLES L. GHELLBE V I 

